Remedy for blood-poisoning



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST TANNER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

REMEDY FOR BLOOD-POISONING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,422, dated September 11, 1888.

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T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ERNEST TANNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medicinal Compounds for Blood-Poisoning, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to a medical compound for the treatment of blood-poisoning resulting from the bite of animals, reptiles, or insects, such as rabid animals, snake-bites, and bites of all poisonous insects.

The compound consists of the following ingredients: IZcmiago Zanctfolia, or rib-grass, onehalf pound; Plantago media, or plantain, onefourth pound; CoryZu-s Americana, (twigs of young hazel,) one-fourth pound; alcohol or spirits, sufficient quantity.

Each of the above herbs are separately chopped or pounded preparatory to macera tion. Each is properly macerated in a sufi r cient quantity of spirits and then expressed, and the three fluid extracts'combined.

This compound may be taken internally in doses of a teaspoonful in two ounces of water every two hours, and also may be applied to the bite or sore externally.

The compound, beside being a remedy for blood-poisoning, is also beneficial in other ailments.

\Vhat I claim is- The herein described medical compound, consisting of the extracts of Plantago Zanczfolz'a, or rib-grass, Plcmtago media, or plantain, and Corylus Americana, (twigs of young hazel,) in proportions substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST TANNER.

Vitnesses:

FRANK Mmrrz, JOHN E. MORRIs. 

